The F4U-5 is the last propeller-driven fighter of the US Navy to be produced.They are developed from the F4U-4,the prototype of the aircraft is a converted F4U-4(BuNo.27296).A series of lastest technologies were applied to the aircraft,and the first flight were taken on December 21,1945.
The F4U-5 have the longest nose of all the Corsairs,the extend nose contains the 2300hp R-2800-32W engine and the automatically-adjusting turbo supercharger.The cockpit was redesigned,and also the canopy.The F4U-5's production was limited to 233 examples with the ending of the war.
The revolutionary design of the F4U Corsair was created in 1938 in response to the request of the US Navy to design a high-speed fighter stationed on board aircraft carriers. Chance Vought took on the challenge, with the goal of fitting the most powerful of the available engines (i.e. the Pratt-Whitney Double Wasp engine) into the smallest possible airframe. The key was to place the clunky landing gear in the inverted, crooked wings that became the hallmark of the aircraft. The flight of the prototype took place on May 29, 1940, and the US Navy received its first serial Corsair on July 31, 1942. However, tests carried out by the US Navy on aircraft carriers revealed some flaws in the design, which meant that the first production series of the aircraft went to squadrons of the Marine Corps and operated from land bases. The first unit received by the F-4 was the VMF-124 at Gudalcanal. It quickly turned out that the new machine definitely surpasses all enemy machines and, in several respects, also the F-6 Hellcat. At the same time, however, it was very difficult to pilot and required great attention when landing. Interestingly, only up to 20% of Corsair missions took off from the decks of aircraft carriers, and throughout almost the entire war they remained primarily a machine of the Marine Corps. After the end of World War II, the F-4 Corsair remained in the line and took part in the Korean War (1950-1953).
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